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Snob, the general-interest, Russian-language magazine, owned by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, and catering to that country’s global elite, launches in New York this week. According to The Wall Street Journal “The name of the magazine does not mean to Russians what it means to Americans. For readers, the title Snob is “obviously ironic,”… the title is an acronym of the Russian words for accomplished, independent, educated and thriving. For Russians, a snob has come to mean a self-made man, or a person who has gained the right to snobbishness.”

Excellent calendars are marked for theBRIC auction at Saatchi Gallery, London, presented by the Outstandingly Excellent Phillips de Pury & Company, London and Worldwide: From the press release: “On 23rd and 24th April, Phillips de Pury & Company will hold their BRIC auctions at London’s Saatchi Gallery. The BRIC auctions will be the very first sales of Contemporary Art from today’s fastest-growing and burgeoning international powerhouses: Brazil, Russia, India and China. The auctions will launch with an evening sale on April 23rd, featuring seminal works from a selection of the four countries’ key Contemporary artists, and followed on April 24th, by four separate day sales, each dedicated to separate BRIC country and offering works by the most successful and dynamic Contemporary artists from the various regions. While normally used as a financial term referring to the rapidly expanding economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, here the acronym BRIC refers to the budding Contemporary Art scene within these four nations.” For more information, please click HERE. To browse the catalogue, please click HERE.

Cataloging Excellence: The BRIC auction, featuring contemporary art from Brazil, Russia, India and China, presented by Phillips de Pury & Company at Sastchi Gallery London on April 23 and 24, 2010. Image via Phillips de Pury & Company.